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- Work in feminist philosophy of biology can be motivated by a number of, often interrelated, goals including countering biological arguments supporting women's oppression, revealing and analyzing the role of gender values in the production of biological knowledge, and facilitating the production of maximally accurate accounts of female biology and gendered topics of study in the biological sciences.
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Jun 22, 2011 · Motivations to conduct research in feminist philosophy of biology include the drive to challenge biological justifications for women's oppression, interrogate the epistemic function of gender values in scientific practice, and improve the practices and products of biological research on sex and gender.
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In sum, motivations for conducting research in feminist...
- Feminist Philosophy of Biology
Jun 22, 2011 · In sum, motivations for conducting research in feminist philosophy of biology include the drive to challenge biological justifications of women’s oppression, including the dimorphic assumptions upon which they rest, and improve the practices and products of biological research, particularly on sex, gender, and gender/sex.
Feminist philosophy of biology is concerned with eliminating these biases in hopes of (1) clearly evaluating research that supports the oppression of women, and (2) maximizing the accuracy of scientific research regarding sex, women, and gender.
Feminist philosophers of biology bring the tools of feminist theory, and in particular the tools of feminist philosophy of science, to investigations of the life sciences. While the critical examination of ...
Feminist philosophers of science have worked to advance the status of women in the science professions, to critique and correct sexist science, and to critically evaluate our models of scientific reason and practice in light of the findings of gender studies of science. In doing so, they raise novel philosophical.
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Aug 22, 2018 · Lynn Hankinson Nelson’s (2017) Biology and Feminism: A Philosophical Introduction offers a comprehensive introductory overview of feminist engagement with the biological study of gender (with some attention to biological accounts of race and sexuality).
For example, Schiebinger demonstrates that feminism has had its greatest impact in such disciplines as primatology, archeology and biology by motivating scientists to "ask new questions" (1999, 187), thereby altering the scientific knowledge that is produced.
